OUR NEW SEASON IS HERE!

IT’S A PROGRAMME OF ALL HULL BASED PLAYS THIS SEASON…..

This season will have a distinctly local theme with the opportunity to run two fabulous Hull-based plays; Ladies’ Day (first performed by us in 2008) and we have been fortunate to get the amateur rights to put on Richard Bean’s To Have And To Hold which was a recent success at Hull Truck as recently as 2025. 


COMIMG THIS NOVEMBER : LADIES’ DAY by Amanda Whittington

Ladies’ Day follows four fish factory workers from Hull—Pearl, Jan, Shelley, and Linda—whose daily lives are an unfulfilling grind. It is 2005 and to celebrate Pearl’s upcoming retirement, they ditch their hairnets for glamorous outfits and head out for a day at York Racecourse in the year Royal Ascot was held there.  As the champagne flows, personal secrets begin to unravel, exposing their hidden heartbreaks and dreams.

We are looking forward to bringing this popular comedy-drama back  to the stage, 19 years after our first run back in 2008. 

Directed by Steve Howland and performed by Janet Drewery, Nic Johnson, Wendy Salter, Sally Morland, Rob Newton and Steve Howland.


COMIMG MAY 2027 : TO HAVE AND TO HOLD by Richard Bean

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD is a sharp, funny and bittersweet comedy-drama about an elderly couple and the chaos that ensues when their adult children descend to get their affairs in order.

After sixty years of marriage, happily settled into their retirement village in Wetwang, ex-cop Jack and his wife Florence have elevated bickering almost to the status of high art.  That said, they’re otherwise getting along fine with the support of a nearby niece and the hilarious interventions of the man known locally as ‘Rhubarb Eddie’. 

But will their anxious son, shuttling between London and LA, and their errant daughter, contemplating a move to Australia, leave them to live out their days in peace?

Directed by Janet Drewery and performed by Gill Collins, Steve Howland, Gary Vann, Dianne Turner, Lee Kelly and Janet Lamb.


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PARTY PIECE. THE PHOTOS

Four weeks ago we dismantled our complex stage set and auditorium after the final night of the Richard Harris comedy, Party Piece, and gave ourselves a well-earned rest.

With an almost capacity audience we can consider our efforts were a success after a lot of hard work rehearsing, creating props and special effects and indeed, building the complex set.

We had almost twenty people involved directly in the production along with off site help from others, primarily the Brough shedders who manufactured much of our set during the rehearsal period – and all from recovered wood.

Cast from L: Wendy Salter, Lee Kelly, Sally Morland, Rob Newton, Barbara Failey, Gary Vann, Nic Johnson

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What Next?

This is our annual summer break and as usual we will be reading through plays and going through the selection process of choosing our productions for November 2026 and May 2027.

How do we do that? Read our blog post from last year about our process for choosing plays – there are more boxes to tick than you might imagine!

What Does Choosing a New Play Involve?

Simply find this panel on the web page and enter your email address, then validate in the email that will arrive shortly after.

Not long now

The Forum hasn’t been so full of people for rehearsals like this for many years, but then this play has a cast of seven and an extensive backstage crew too. If you’re booked to see this comedy then you will get to understand why.

This week we enter our final rehearsals before preparing to take it to the stage – so this Friday will see our tiring but amazing set-build weekend begin as we create the set we have had to imagine for the last few weeks.

As for tickets, we have seats still available on Saturday 16/5 or get on our waiting list for other days.

A few recent photos below…

Your local AmDram – Brough & Elloughton's Amateur Dramatic Society